Would You Like To Live In A Castle?

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I voted yes as why not. I'd currently move into a cardboard box on the street as it would be less stress than my current abode.

I've always loved Scarborough Castle, but it's a bit of a fixer-upper.....

I'd really prefer a private residence based on a star fort, which would technically be a castle even if it's not what typically comes to mind.

I have a dragon to guard my castle. So far, he’s not eaten any villagers because I’ve been giving him a steady diet of trolls and ogres.

Well...if you mean...had unlimited resources to build and maintain a "castle" complete with anachronisms that they didnt really have in the middle ages...like ...central heading and telephones (for the nineteenth century), and added internet and TV for today, and had murals of your fav fantasy novels as decoration...the stuff that King Ludwig of Bavaria was able to get away with for years before they finally carted him off to the looney bin...everyone's fantasy of a castle come to life:


https://youtu.be/BxhxZHqHDGA


https://youtu.be/zdo6SQvlwe8


Then yeah...who wouldnt want that?

There is a castle that bears our family name but I don't think we have any claim to it lol. I've been there anyway and it's pretty much in ruins.


I'd love to live in a 19th century mock-medieval castle like one of Ludwig II's. There's a castle local to us that fits that description with some of the rooms designed by Pugin

My English tutor grew up in a castle (it comes with a title - her father is a Sir). She took us there on a daytrip when we were studying the Gothic. Her childhood bedroom had a real priest hole, can you imagine?

One of my childhood friends lived in a National Trust castle - her dad was the steward there. It was beautiful (and haunted), some parts dating back to the 11th century.

We lived in a Victorian Chapel growing up, big arched window and old stone. Not a castle by any stretch but it was perfect. Places with history and ghosts are neat as long as the upkeep isn't a worry.

It would be fun to tour a haunted castle.

^ The castle my friend lived in had a lot of ghost stories attached. A giant shadowy figure in the grounds, the disembodied cries of a baby in one of the towers, one of the castle's early lords dressed in grey, a little girl, a headless horseman (no, really) and a woman in a hooped skirt who'd be seen in one corridor or through the window at the end of it.

My friend's dad and another workman had thought they saw the man in grey, and all of the family said they'd heard the baby crying. I never saw a ghost while I was there, but the corridor with the supposed lady ghost had a horribly ominous feeling about it.

On Halloween they did ghost tours and we used to hide and make spooky noises for the visitors lol.

I'm inclined to believe people's stories in general because our Chapel was definitely haunted and I saw an apparition there plain as day.

^I think being a steward to a castle has got to be one of the coolest jobs going, but then I probably didn't appreciate any of the actual work aspects at the time lol.

They lived in the more modern quarters (I guess 17th-18thC) and then the rest of it was preserved for guests to walk round on tours, with a gift shop and a café in the old stables and some demonstrations and stuff. National Trust properties are awesome.

I loved reading Elliot O’Donnell’s ghost stories about gray ladies, headless ghosts , spectral hounds and horses ,and all sorts of spooky stuff.

There is castle in Germany under the same family name as my paternal grandmother's maiden name. Though the original castle was built in 1250 AD the pics on the web all show a rather pedestrian 18th century looking manor house with no real fortification (kinda like Georger Washington's house at Mount Vernon). Impressive for a home, but not ... the fairytale castle I would hope for. With towers and moats and all. Oh well.